Customers and colleagues were delighted to welcome Guide Dog puppies, Jasper and Sandy, and their puppy walkers Catriona and Mhairi back to the store to celebrate their first 6 months of training earlier this week.
Both puppies are doing exceptionally well and were very well behaved on their visit, and we are looking forward to seeing them on their birthday!
Customers and colleagues have now raised £ 15,904.00 and are about to choose a name for the third puppy
Shay, Sainsbury’s Blackhall
Just thought I would let you know about the recent event at Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre.
The store provided the ingredients for a Burns Supper that was enjoyed by the North West Support Services Monday Cooking Club, the Jubilee Club and the Youth Club. They had a great time celebrating the life of our
great bard, Robert Burns.
The photograph shows service users from the centre and some of our colleagues.
Shay, Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s Guide Dog puppies Jasper and Sandy are now 6 months old and they will be coming in to the store on Monday (4 Feb) at 11.30am to show customers and colleagues how their training is coming along.
Sainsbury’s customers and staff have now raised £15,000 for another Guide Dog puppy and will be starting the process of choosing a name for ‘Puppy 3’ soon!
Post-Christmas clean up? Don’t throw your old Christmas cards out with the rest of your household rubbish – recycle them at Sainsbury’s Blackhall!
Sainsbury’s is providing local residents with a solution to make use of their Christmas cards this year. The store has a Christmas card recycling bin in place and residents can bring in their cards until 15 January.
Sainsbury’s is making a donation to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) based on the volume of cards collected.
Sainsbury’s are trying to do their bit for the environment by helping customers tackle post-Christmas waste and impact on landfill by:
Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre’s Young at Heart Group enjoyed a complimentary Christmas lunch at Sainsbury’s café on 13 December. The ladies were joined by Colin, the Centre’s volunteer driver, who did a splendid job picking them up all from their homes and taking them safely back again.
And the lunch was delicious!
Fancy some seasonal sounds while you do your Christmas shopping? Sainsbury’s Blackhall will ring out with all your festive favourites with visits planned by three different choirs in the run-up to Christmas!
A spokesperson said: “We are delighted to welcome some members of the congregation of our local Church, Blackhall St Columba’s, to our store on Sunday (9 December) at 2pm to sing carols for our customers and colleagues. We are also looking forward to a visit from Stockbridge Primary School choir, who will be singing for us on Wednesday 12 December at 4pm, and the Edinburgh Jubilio Choir on Tuesday 18 December at 6pm.”
They came, they saw and they melted hearts! Sainsbury’s customers and staff have raised funds to train two puppies to become guide dogs, and Jasper and Sandy – now a whole fourteen weeks old – called in to the Craigleith store with their walkers to say hello yesterday.
It was also an opportunity for the gorgeous wee dugs to meet the people who named them – Clermiston Primary pupil Eve McCall and Sainsbury’s Rebecca Law won an in-store competition to name the puppies, and both were at Blackhall to meet their wee friends.
Jasper and Sandy, two Guide Dog puppies sponsored by Sainsbury’s Blackhall customers, will be making personal appearances at the local store next Wednesday at 2pm.
Sainsbury’s customers and staff chose Guide Dogs as their nominated charity for 2011/12 and Jasper and Sandy will be calling in to meet everyone and say thanks! Guests of honour will be Rebecca Law, a member of staff at Sainsbury’s, and Clermiston Primary School pupil Eve McCall – Rebecca and Eve won the store’s ‘Name the Puppies’ competition.
Jasper and Sandy – who is named after Guide Dogs volunteer collector Sandy Miller, a well-known face at Sainsbury’s – don’t have too far to travel to visit the local store. Jasper is being walked for his first year by a Guide Dog puppy walker who lives in Blackhall, while Sandy is learning his trade in Leith.
It costs £10,000 to adopt, name and train two puppies for their first year but through collections at checkouts, by volunteers and through a local ‘Go Walkies’ sponsored event generous staff and customers raised that amount and more – the local store is now well on the way to raising another £5000 to sponsor another puppy in the New Year!
Local supermarket Sainsbury’s has been fined £6000 for allowing food chewed on by mice to be placed on sale at a the branch at Craigleith Retail park..
Environmental officers found that rodents had gnawed on the packaging of crisps, rice and nuts at the Craigleith Road store during a visit in February last year.
They made the inspection after receiving an anonymous tip-off claiming hygiene at the branch was extremely unsatisfactory.
On Friday Sainsbury’s admitted two charges of contravening food safety regulations, while two further allegations were dropped by prosecutors, including that mice droppings and trails of mice urine were present on shelves.
The food firm blamed contractors for failing to ensure the revamped store was pest proof.
Depute procurator fiscal Bruce Macrosson told Edinburgh Sheriff Court that environmental health inspectors found a number of products that had been tampered with by the mice.
He said: “On February 10, 2011, following an anonymous complaint of mice activity at the store premises, environmental health officers of Edinburgh City Council attended the premises. The duty manager informed the officers that the company was aware there was mice activity in the store and that they were addressing the issue.
“They found that two bags of Sainsbury’s own brand salted cashew nuts had been gnawed on by mice.
“They also found two packets of rice that had been gnawed on by mice. And they also discovered a multi-pack of Quavers crisps that had been tampered with by the mice.”
The court also heard Sainsbury’s staff then destroyed all food stuffs that could have come into contact with the rodents.
Defence advocate Susan Duff told the court that the company accepted it had committed criminal offences. She said the store had suffered problems since it reopened following a £9 million refurbishment in October 2010.
Mrs Duff said contractors had failed to take adequate steps to make the store pest proof, and had failed to tell Sainsbury’s what they had done. The court heard the firm had spent only £3000 on anti-rodent measures and that inspectors visited the store around the same time Sainsbury’s discovered what was going on.
She added that the company had taken all available measures to make the shop safe for customers to visit.
Mrs Duff said: “The company deeply regrets that the offences were committed. Once it became apparent, the company took immediate action to remedy the situation.
“The £3000 spent on proofing was grossly inadequate. The company acted extremely responsibly once it became aware of the problem. Sainsbury’s decided to destroy the food stuffs that may have been in contact with the mice.
Hitting Sainsbury’s with the £6000 fine, Sheriff Paul Arthurson QC said: “In light of what has been said by the prosecution and the mitigation offered on behalf of Sainsbury’s, I will impose a financial penalty.”
